Quotes About Truth

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

Every believer must test all teachers to-day, for himself, by the Word of God, and their attitude to the atoning Cross of Christ, and other fundamental truths of the gospel, and not be misled into testing "teaching" by the character of the teacher. Good men can be deceived, and Satan needs good men to float his lies under the guise of truth.

To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

How can you say you're not in love with Hell?" "Because I'm not in love with Hell." See? Not hard to say at all. It's true isn't it? "Delusional much?

Did you mean it when you said it? Did you fall in love with me? Because I finally realized that I fell hard for you. I was fooling myself in not admitting it when I had you with me.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

Informed optimism is different from a willful ignorance that simply wishes not to see the bad in the world. Seeing the truth and choosing every day to see it, letting life break your heart but doing something about it took courage. It was not about hiding your head in the sand but rather digging in, accepting the challenges, and doing the hard work it takes not just to complain about a problem but to be the solution.

Fame and power do not change us; they amplify us. If we are insecure, we grow more so. If we are addictive, we become a greater addict and insatiable. If we are desirous of truth, we seek it more. If we are generous, we become more so. If we seek to fill holes through dishonest means, we have greater access to do so. Fame and power are masterful teachers.

Reality wins, and I'd rather see the truth than stay in love with a fantasy.

I did not write love songs as a sixteen-year-old. I did not write about crushes or about mean girls. I wrote about my life—about the injustices and inequities and the search for answers and self-responsibility.

I can't tell you about the pain, and how my heart to this day screams to have a mom in my life. But I know that it is not safe with her. Every day I miss having a mom. But I don't miss Nedra. I will always want a mom, the concept of what a mom is. But I don't have that. I never did, no matter how hard I tried to fool myself. Nedra is not that. Reality wins, and I'd rather see the truth than stay in love with a fantasy.

When truth's a feeling, can it be both? Both true and untrue?

I hope the teacher doesn't say, 'Write an essay about your summer vacation.' If she does, I'll leave the paper blank. Else I'll have to lie. Say eviction is the best vacation. Hearing Ma weeping and Pa wheezing, cracking his knuckles while Leda sucks her pacifier, double-time, and Ray holds my hand. I never lie. I won't. It's better to keep quiet.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

A half-truth is a whole lie.

Truth is the safest lie.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.

The truth comes only at the moment of dying.

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.